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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 14, 1964
Out the Window
A large group of ultra-liberals yesterday bastardized in two hours the very ideals they have stood by through their college lives.
Their stupidity and intolerance turned an honest educational effort in the Forum Room into a jam-pack, tension-filled zoo.
Two conservative, one a John Bircher, came to express their views—to voice an objection to the appearance of Milan Opocensky, the Czech theologian who proposed at KU last week that his church work within the Communist structure
To summarize the Birchers in one phrase—they were narrow-mindedness suddenly stood up on its hind legs and talking.
The Birchers do not concern me. They give themselves away whenever they open their mouths.
The crowd's reaction was the part of the forum which was appalling. The ultra-liberals had a perfect opportunity to illustrate their objections to the far right. They had a chance to expose the far right for what it is—racial bigotry, stupidity, hate-peddling.
The most responsible of the far left have worked devotedly on this for a long time, and to the credit of those few, they conducted themselves well.
The rest went berserk. They showed the same basic mentality which they despise in the Birchers.
The ultra-liberals preach tolerance with a pious fervor. They showed themselves to be completely intolerant—hecklers and boobs who cannot listen to an opposition view without losing their heads.
The ultra-liberals preach the sanctity of free speech. They gave credence to the old saying: "I believe in free speech as long as you agree with me." They harrassed, harangued, hissed, booed, and insulted.
The ultra-liberals preach academic freedom. It is their sacred cow. Yet they showed themselves incapable of the responsibility of academic freedom. From now on, anyone from the far right who speaks on campus is either crazy or a brute for punishment (as the two men were yesterday).
The meeting grew to frenzied proportions.
Those who so oppose intolerance met narrow-mindedness with narrow-mindedness.
Those who so oppose the hate-mongers of the far right met bitterness with bitterness.
The self-appointed defenders of free speech showed an incapacity for allowing a man to have his say.
To those who purport to champion all that is noble in this country, but turn yesterday's educational opportunity into a dog-fight:
You have denied yourselves your right to speak righteously of academic freedom.
You have denied yourselves your right to indignance at infringements on free speech.
You have denied yourselves your right to promote a free and healthy exchange of ideas.
You have denied these rights by your very action.
— Tom Coffman
The People Say...
On behalf of home exports (Buy British Buy Best etc), I feel I must take exception to the letter entitled 'Ban Beatles,' in Wednesday's University Daily Kansan. On the basis of extensive researches conducted after the Ed Sullivan Show, Mr. Steve Long, in the somewhat unacustomed guise of a Mid-West Savonarola, sees danger threatening the moral fibre of American youth and issues a clarion call to intellectuals to rally around him
(sic) to help avert the threatened disaster.
Correlating Beatlemania with the observed rise of support for Barry Goldwater and the right-wing resurgence in general, he is led to the conclusion that no less a figure than Robert Welch is behind the Beatles. All of which may be a highly effective way of conveying Mr. Long's dislike of Robert Welch, but seems hardly fair on the Beatles.
Hugh Taylor Great Britain
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from the morgue
At the induction ceremony, the new students were required to take the following oath
"We will never discredit our University; we will cherish the ideals and sacred things of the University. We will revere and obey the University's laws and do our best to incite a like attitude in those about us. We will strive unceasingly to quicken the sense of civic duty, and, in all these ways, we will strive to transmit our beloved University, greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us."
In all the traditional ceremonies at the University, the freshmen had to wear a freshman cap which was available at nominal cost at local clothing stores.
Raisin in the Sun Shows Dreams of Negro Family
Stereotyped personalities become credible human beings in the Experimental Theatre's current drama, "A Raisin in the Sun."
Living in a dreary apartment in Chicago's Southside, a Negro family revives thwarted dreams at the arrival of a $10,000 insurance check.
Mama, to whom the money is sent, longs for the fulfillment of a life-long desire to own a home—one with plenty of sunlight and a garden in back.
To her son, Walter Lee, the money promises escape from his job as a chauffeur through investment in a liquor store.
His sister Beneatha, who wants to be a doctor, needs the money for medical school tuition.
The resolution of this conflict and the courage with which the family faces the explosion of its dream form the bases of the drama
Lacy Banks, Kansas City junior, displays singular power range of emotion, and sympathetic appeal as the tormented, oppressed Negro. He is unroarious in a drunken, African dance, tender in a love scene with his wife, and strongly moving in his moments of crisis and decision.
His wife Ruth, played by Theresa Lockhart, Leavenworth sophomore, exemplifies the sad-eyed, weary woman to whom life has become so meaningless that she considers an abortion.
Beneatha is the modern, stream-lined young student, with no room for God or the white man's way of life. Jo Anne Holbert, Kansas City senior, emphasizes the ambitions and ideals of Negro youth.
Mama, the role of Marjorie French, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, is the head and protector of the matriarchal family. Miss French fits the part well but is weak in the highly emotional scenes.
Travis, the young son, is the focus of the dreams of the family. Played on alternate nights by two Lawrence youngsters, Mike Hamm and Wes Summers, Travis is a delightfully mischievous boy.
Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika junior, is perfectly cast as the intellectual African student. Cordell Meeks, Kansas City senior, is effective as the rich young Negro who has learned to compete in a white world.
The one white man in the play, George Bradley, Lawrence graduate student, is portrayed quite pointedly as a bumbling, nervous representative of a neighborhood organization which tries to keep the Negro family from moving into it.
The Experimental Theatre is a happy choice for the production site, for the smallness of the theater draws the audience into the action. The outstanding set and sound effects play an integral part in establishing the mood of the drama.
Although the cast is inexperienced, they present an appealing and perhaps significant insight into Negro life in America.
— Margaret Hughes
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AMERICAN SPEECH is a long way from losing its regional flavor because of nation-wide standardization. Here's one I heard recently from a man who quit his job because of inter-departmental conflicts: "There were just too many he-possums for this one holler."
"GLAVES TO BIG-
NESS." HOW RIGHT
YOU ARE PHIL.
BUT WHAT'S THE
SOLUTION? IS
GOLDWATER THE
ONLY ONE WHO
CAN SAVE US?
"IS GOLDWATER THE ONLY ONE?" THAT'S CERTAINLY THE QUESTION, DAN. CAN AMERICA EVER AGAIN BE THE LAND WHERE OLD FASHIONED GET-UP-AND-
shou Unit
B
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the
dom
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"OLD FASHIONED GET UP AND GO." TODAY'S BRIGHT BOYS ONLY HAVE CON-TEMPT FOR THAT, PHIL. OUR KIND OF THINKING IS COSSOLETE AND NINE-TEENTH CEN-
"OBSOLETE AND NINE-
TEENTH CENTURY" YOU
HIT THE LOCK ON THE
HEAD THAT TIME, DAN.
THEYRE ALL THE SAME
THESE FELLOUS, THATS
ME TODAY,
EVERYBODY'S
ALL THE
SAME.
"EVERYBODY'S ALL THE SAME!" DOES I EVER BOTHER YOU, PHIL THAT INDIVIDUALISM IS DUMING IN THIS COUNTRY?
I DON'T MIND TELLING YOU IT BOTHERS ME A LOT DAN. WERE AS GOOD AS MACHINES.